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  • Dateline: Vegas!

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Mon Feb 2 15:31:32 2026
    I'm in the airport at a lounge, drinking tepid coffee. My company has a 3-day conference in Vegas, and I'm looking forward to a change in scenery.

    First, I wanted to check messages on the BBS. I copied my SyncTerm and Multimail directories to my work laptop - so far so good. Didn't bring my editor install. That's OK, I can install it from the web. Crowdstrike would beg to differ - as it's wont to do. I logged into the console and whitelisted it, but apparently you can't force a policy update. I tried rebooting, but to no avail.

    I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll handle word wrapping in a packet.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 2 16:45:36 2026
    Re: Dateline: Vegas!
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon Feb 02 2026 03:31 pm

    I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll handle word wrapping in a packet.

    I've seen their new Edit, and it looks interesting. I've heard it will be included by default in Windows 11 now too.

    It looks like it's available for Linux as well.. Microsoft has a GitHub page for it, with downloads:

    https://github.com/microsoft/edit

    There's also a page with Snap packages for Edit, for Linux distributions & setups that use Snap:

    https://snapcraft.io/msedit

    I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit (which is now freeware), though I haven't used either of them very much (yet). It's interesting to see a couple of old favorite DOS-based editors still alive.

    Nightfox
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  • From Accession@21:1/700 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 2 19:38:43 2026
    Hey Poindexter!

    On Mon, Feb 02 2026 17:31:32 -0600, you wrote:

    I'm in the airport at a lounge, drinking tepid coffee. My company
    has a 3-day conference in Vegas, and I'm looking forward to a change
    in scenery.

    First, I wanted to check messages on the BBS. I copied my SyncTerm
    and Multimail directories to my work laptop - so far so good. Didn't
    bring my editor install. That's OK, I can install it from the web. Crowdstrike would beg to differ - as it's wont to do. I logged into
    the console and whitelisted it, but apparently you can't force a
    policy update. I tried rebooting, but to no avail.

    I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll
    handle word wrapping in a packet.

    Looks good from this angle. I think MultiMail handles your word wrapping, though, so it probably doesn't matter what editor you use. From my limited use of MultiMail with nano as my editor (using the entire 160 character wide terminal), when posted into MultiMail it has always displayed 80 columns wide.

    If there was any settings in MultiMail to change that, I didn't see them.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From MIKE POWELL@21:4/134 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tue Feb 3 08:02:00 2026
    I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll handle word wrapping in a packet.

    Apparently it handled it. ;)
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  • From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Tue Feb 3 13:43:31 2026
    Re: Dateline: Vegas!
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 02 2026 16:45:36

    I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit...

    Is this the same thing as their TSE?
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Mortar M. on Tue Feb 3 14:36:01 2026
    Re: Dateline: Vegas!
    By: Mortar M. to Nightfox on Tue Feb 03 2026 01:43 pm

    I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit...

    Is this the same thing as their TSE?

    Ah, yes, as far as I know, it is.

    Nightfox
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Wed Feb 4 15:13:37 2026
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I've seen their new Edit, and it looks interesting. I've heard it will
    be included by default in Windows 11 now too.

    I was expecting Wordstar key bindings, didn't realize you could just
    highlight with the mouse...


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Mortar M. on Wed Feb 4 15:13:37 2026
    Mortar M. wrote to Nightfox <=-


    Is this the same thing as their TSE?

    Yes, more or less. Qedit begat The SemWare Editor for DOS, which became TSE for DOS/Windows.

    I was trying to find a copy of QEDIT online to download for my on-the-road editing, forgot they had a DOS TSR version, when terminate-and-stay-resident programs were all the rage. Borland Sidekick was the one to beat - lots of add-ons that come in handy when you're running a single-tasking OS.

    (aside: I ended up with a copy of VDE for DOS - configurable, uses the Wordstar key bindings by default, and I had it in my util directory. I used to use it for creating tfiles that I wanted to have justified paragraphs.


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  • From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 5 14:47:42 2026
    Re: Re: Dateline: Vegas!
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Wed Feb 04 2026 15:13:37

    Borland Sidekick was the one to beat...

    Great utility. I recommended it to my department head when it first came out. The price was right, so he allowed it. Ended up being the favorite PC tool of the department. Next thing I know, I'm the unofficial software wrangler.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Mortar M. on Fri Feb 6 09:46:45 2026
    Mortar M. wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Next thing I know, I'm the unofficial software wrangler.

    I worked at a software company in the '90s - think "Flying Toasters"
    screen savers. Our QA lab manager was in a community of QA lab managers
    who traded software with each other - we had a library of software that
    we'd traded copies of our software for licenses of their software.

    You'd go see him first before you reached out to IT for software...


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